Works by Philip Dorrell

In The Evolution of biological complexity , Christoph Adami , Charles Ofria and Travis C. Collier analysed the relationship between evolution by natural selection and the entropy of the genome. There are some similarities between their paper and my own analysis of..

home page other lists my email address Philip Dorrell, 6 September 2005 At talk.origins there is a list of creationist claims with links to accompanying responses. The responses attempt to refute the corresponding claims, but there are errors in some of the refutations. Each item below starts with a link to the section of the talk.origins site that responds to a particular creationist claim.

The script focusFollowsMouse.user.js provides a very simple implementation of "click-free" web browsing: it defines a mouseover method for every HTML link, input, select and text area which calls the focus() method on that control. (Click on the link to install it as a Greasemonkey script.).

Use left and right arrow keys to move the gun left and right. You reduce a number by shooting it with its prime factors. Each time a prime factor hits a number, the number is divided by that factor. If the number is a prime number you can shoot it with a special "P" ("P" for "prime") missile which reduces it directly to 1. To fire a 2, 3, 5 or 7, just type the corresponding key on the keyboard. To (...) fire 11, 13, 17 or 19, type the first letter of the number (in lower case), i.e. "e" for 11, "t" for 13, "s" for 17 and "n" for 19. Type "p" (lower case) to fire the "P" missile. In all cases a number is "dead" when it is reduced to 1. If a number hits you, then you're dead. (shrink)

The Really Basic Business WebSite 19 April, 2008 The really basic business web-site is a web-site owned by you and controlled by you. It provides the basic facts about your business, and, it can be found when someone searches on Google for the name of your business. Read more ... Synaptic Downscaling and the Dream-Maker 10 February, 2008 Can the Dream-Maker theory of dreams be reconciled with the theory of synaptic downscaling proposed by Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli ? Read (...) more ... How to Create an Audio CD Using Sox and InfraRecorder 23 January, 2008 How to create an audio CD using the open-source applications SoX and InfraRecorder. Read more ... "Music Theory" is not the Same Thing as a Theory of Music 16 January, 2008 Music theory is theory in the sense that it is distinct from musical practice, but it is not theory in the sense of being a scientific theory . Read more ... Music: The Hidden Sense and the Three Ways of Knowing 23 December, 2007 Music perception reveals to us an otherwise hidden sense . The three ways of knowing are genetic, experiential learning and cultural learning . Cultural learning can be verified or unverified. "Musicality" perception is a hidden sense that increases the reliability of unverified cultural learning . Read more ... The Evolutionary Implications of Amusia 4 November, 2007 Both adaptive and non-adaptive theories of music have to deal with the problem of amusia. For adaptive theories , amusia is a deficit in the creation and.. (shrink)

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